Tag: Configuration Manager Current Branch

Almost Done So, we have finished the SQL In-Place Upgrade as well as the Backup & Restore to a new Site Server with Windows Server 2012 R2 & SQL Server 2014. So now the last part – Upgrading to 1702. Upgrade to Configuration Manager Current Branch 1702 Testing the database upgrade To upgrade to 1702,…

The Backup and Restore Now that we have gotten Configuration Manager 2012 R2 to a point where we can restore the backup to supported version of a higher Operating System and the same SQL version (2014) we can go through the next phase. As stated before we will be restoring Configuration Manager 2012 R2 to…

Hey everybody! My name is Brandon McMillan and I am a System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) PFE at Microsoft. ConfigMgr Current Branch has been the standard service based model since December 2015 with the release of version 1511. You may have noticed that with the continuous improvements, your antivirus exclusions also need to be kept up to…

Before we get started a huge thank you to Meghan Stewart (Support Escalation Engineer) and Mike Johnson (Senior Support Escalation Engineer) for their knowledge and assistance with this blog. I have several customers who have been interested in Network Load Balancing for Configuration Manager Software Update Points (SUP). Reasons vary from wanting to avoid costly…

When I go out to customers, I always like to see how the top collections are populated (All Servers or All Workstations). This is something most customers do immediately after setting up Configuration Manager, build an all desktops collection and all servers to divide clients and set permissions. Even though this is such a common…